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Midrasha book collection to join
expanded HMC library.
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Berrie Nanotechtology Institute,
the London terrorists
are also developing nano-sized
Harry Kirsbaum
Staff Writer
I
n 1980, the Midrasha was a
degree-granting institution offer-
ing 28 semester-long Judaica
courses, some in partnership with
synagogues. But in the early 1990s,
the Midrasha awarded its last master's
degree and lost national accreditation.
Since 1999, the Midrasha's vast
library has been in a storage facility
away from the public.
About three months ago, Rabbi
Charles Rosenzveig, CEO and founder
of the Holocaust Memorial Center,
answered a letter from Federation's
Alliance for Jewish Education and
offered to take the bulk of the 30,000-
volume library. A small portion of the
library is headed to the Kollel Institute
of Greater Detroit in Oak Park.
"I appreciate the offer very much;'
Rabbi Rosenzveig
said.
A storage space
previously used for .
visiting exhibits on
the first floor of the
Farmington Hills
HMC will hold the
collection. Eventually,
the Midrasha library
- will be combined with
the 30,000-volume
HMC library as part
of an overall HMC
expansion plan that
includes a Holocaust
needed to build triacetone
parachutes that scatter in the
Rabbi Charles
Rosenzveig in the
triperoxide(TATP) explosives.
wind like dandelion seeds to
HMC library.
This new explosive looks like
detect airborne toxins; ultra
sugar and can be molded to
strong concrete for shelters
resemble the most innocuous
and personal armor; a face
exhibit for children
younger than 11 and a
larger lecture hall.
"Hopefully, we will be
able to expand our library
space once we get a
donor," the rabbi said.
Rabbi Judah Isaacs,
• head of AJE, referred
to the Midrasha holdings as a "very
scholarly collection" that also contains
many rare books of Yiddish culture.
Very few large, full-scale Judaic
libraries are open to the public except
at universities, said Sarah Field of Oak
Park, past president of the AssociatiOn
of Jewish Libraries, who was in charge
of dismantling the Midrasha library.
Two local brothers, David and the
late.Daniel Elazar, devised the clas-
sification system used in the Midrasha
library, which now is being used in
Judaic libraries throughout the world,
she said.
At present, the plan is not to make •
the collection circulating; but Field
is encouraging the HMC change that
plan.
"I'm sure that David Silberman
would be a value of West Bloomfield
to everyone she sorts incoming
books.
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of objects, such
recognition
as a scented
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effective it
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distinguishes
its detection
between
virtually
identical twins;
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software that
identifies
Researchers at
computer users
the Technion-
by each person's
Israel Institute
unique typing
of Technology—
pattern; and the
home to
basis for an antidote to anthrax
Israel's Nobel scientists—
made from a common antibiotic.
have developed a hand-
held scanner that detects
The American Technion Society
this explosive. They are now
is proud to be a partner in these
perfecting this scanner so it
efforts. With your help, we can
can uncover TATP explosives in
ensure that Israel's scientists
public areas such as airports
continue shaping a stronger Israel
and department stores.
and a better, safer world. Join us.
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ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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